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    Odd grey bars?

    Anyone else suddenly getting these? I have an inch deep grey bar at the base of any TZ screen and a cm or so down the RHS. There is a close X on the RHS but it returns as soon as you link to another page.
    The clock is no longer operational so I assume its a setting thing but I have it on 2 separate PCs now.
    I'd quite like them gone.
    Thanks
    David

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    They are adverts top and bottom of the page, they infected both my windows 10 machines at the same time.
    "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."

    'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.

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    Yep, I was getting these but enabled uBlock Origin in Firefox Add-ons Manager and it fixed it.

    Still suffering on iPad and iPhone though.

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    U block origin does indeed solve the issue. Thanks

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    The boss might not appreciate you blocking them, the forum needs to be paid for!

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    Use Brave browser it blocks all adverts, plus they don't sell your browsing history to 3rd parties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard View Post
    Use Brave browser it blocks all adverts, plus they don't sell your browsing history to 3rd parties.
    Thanks for the heads up, I am going to try that myself. I get a different issue where some threads I click on don't open correctly.

    It seems to be if someone puts any price value in the thread title, really strange.

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    Just in case you don't want support Googles bid to take over the world

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy67 View Post
    The boss might not appreciate you blocking them, the forum needs to be paid for!
    Fair point but I'm not seeing the ads just grey bars. Worst of all situations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidL View Post
    Fair point but I'm not seeing the ads just grey bars. Worst of all situations.
    Me too and as far as I’m aware my iPad has no Adblock running?
    In the meantime I just keep hitting the X.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pitfitter View Post
    Me too and as far as I’m aware my iPad has no Adblock running?
    In the meantime I just keep hitting the X.
    Same here

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    Quote Originally Posted by lewie View Post
    Same here
    And here, for the last couple of days. I noticed that I’d been logged out as well, so had to log in again and then the blank grey boxes started.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidL View Post
    Fair point but I'm not seeing the ads just grey bars. Worst of all situations.

    I've got an ad telling me to get a TV licence, I have one, so not a very well targeted! It took ages to load properly and sits Square in the middle of the grey bar which is now blocking a chunk of every screen.


    Ads aren't bad but bad implementation of ads is.

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    I've also had this for a few days, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. This on Safari and Firefox on Mac with Ublock running, and on iCab on the phone and pad with the iCab filters running.
    F.T.F.A.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaBa View Post
    And here, for the last couple of days. I noticed that I’d been logged out as well, so had to log in again and then the blank grey boxes started.
    Me Too

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    Never noticed the grey edges. Thought they are part of page design.

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